842 stories by "Tim Treanor"
After death, two professionals spring into action. The undertaker applies makeup, and puts formaldehyde in the veins, so that the forgetting may begin after a celebration. If the undertaker …
Congress has included a $15 billion grant package for performance and related arts, including theaters, in the $900 billion coronavirus relief package it passed on Monday. The program, calle…
Do you remember the old Firesign Theatre? On their records (do you remember records?), an absurd scene would dissolve into another absurd scene, until you dissolved in laughter. To put a per…
Scrooge was right, you know; it is humbug to fall like jackals upon each other for eleven months of the year, but on the twelfth to feign good will and generosity of spirit. He was a skinfli…
After fifteen and a half years and more than ten thousand articles, DC Theatre Scene will cease publishing on December 31, 2020. After December 31, there will be no more reviews, no more art…
You're never quite sure which Claus is independent in Jackob G. Hofmann's meandering, pointless 70-minute video comedy until the very end, and by that point it doesn't matter. In Best Medici…
Shakespeare Theatre Company announced yesterday that it will cancel its limited in-person production of Blindness in light of an increase in the number of DC coronavirus cases. The increase …
The economic havoc caused by the coronavirus has claimed another local victim " Brave Spirits Theatre. The nine-year-old company was in the midst of an ambitious project to produce Shakespea…
Brothers and sisters, think back to the day you asked your Heart of Hearts to join you in eternal matrimony, if there was such a day. Did you do it in the traditional way, at a restaurant, k…
An embittered Ari Roth today announced that he has resigned as Artistic Director of Mosaic Theater Company, the company he founded six years ago after parting with Theater J. Board of Di…
Tom Prewitt, Avant Bard Theatre's Artistic Director, died suddenly yesterday, the company announced on Facebook. W. Thompson Prewitt, wAvant Bard's Executive and Artistic Director since Febr…
Live theater is a dangerous place. We know it as a place where audacious ideas and forms " The Seagull, Death of a Salesman, Angels in America, A Strange Loop " saunter their risky walks acr…
Melissa Dunphy's The Gonzales Cantata, which will begin its run on In Series' website November 3, is an opera with a unique libretto " transcripts of the Senate Judiciary Committee's hearing…
There are not many towns which could be riveted by a tale which revolves around the tax treatment that carried interest gets, but, by God, Washington is one of them. Of course, the carried i…
Shakespeare Theatre Company's peripatetic Artistic Director Simon Godwin, having instituted a six-production 2020-2021 season for STC notwithstanding the pandemic, has decided to use his spa…
All stories are about the loss of power " or, more correctly, loss of the illusion of power, and the more fundamental the loss, the more heart-wrenching the story. Here we are, in the prime …
Everyman Theatre today announced that it would resume producing theater live and in person by continuing the run of Caleen Sinnette Jennings' Queens Girl: Black in the Green Mountains on Nov…
Halloween has a special resonance this year, as the horrors are close at hand, funerals are more numerous than weddings, and at times the whole world seems to be a sepulcher. In this context…
Like spring crocuses peeking out of the melting snow, DC-area theaters are beginning to formulate a path back to their audiences, tentative but real. Shakespeare Theatre Company is among…
The pandemic has turned theater into a treasure hunt for some companies as they scramble to find new modes of presentation which are both safe and rewarding for their audiences. But one area…
The Helen Hayes Awards were last night, so I slipped into my good tux, straightened my black tie, and took the Metro down to the waterfront. I hoofed it to the Anthem; saw some buddies; shoo…
Statehood for the District of Columbia has always been a fraught enterprise. It wasn't until 1961 that Washington residents could vote for President; and before 1973, Congress appointed DC g…
If you are inclined to self-righteousness " and, really, who isn't? " you might be prepared to look down your nose at the various Senators, House Members and other political high rollers who…
We think of Shakespeare as a romantic. He was anything but. As portrayed in the canon, love is an affliction, which clouds the reason and destroys discrimination and judgment. If we take a c…
To frame a story about the triumph of lies over truth, jealousy over love, anger over generosity of spirit and " let's put it plainly " the insidious reach of racism over all decent impulses…
